ECommerce: Are Affiliates Getting Fired?

Are Affiliates Getting Fired?

Written by Anik Singal

Copyright 2005 Kurma Group

An alarming trend seems to be catching on with popular merchants lately. The trend is repparttar tendency for some of these companies to begin discriminating against new or inexperienced affiliates and actually FIRE them! Removing an unproductive affiliate is understandable; however, having a ridiculous screening process that only allows websites with thousands of visitors to squeeze through almost seems ridiculous. Now in defense of merchants and affiliate programs: If a program finds that one of their affiliates is using their company’s banner and link on “unethical” or completely unrelated websites, then yes, that affiliate should be dropped. However, for repparttar 151150 everyday work-at-home man or woman hoping to make a stable income through affiliate marketing – at least give them a chance! The bottom line is that affiliate marketing is still a young, but powerful industry with MUCH room for growth. The only way we can fuel this growth is if we provide repparttar 151151 proper training to repparttar 151152 new members. If we just fire repparttar 151153 new members and use repparttar 151154 “no experience” excuse, then how are we ever going to expand repparttar 151155 industry? We at The Affiliate Classroom have spent repparttar 151156 last few weeks getting to know many affiliate managers and companies on a personal level and have asked them questions about this matter. My conclusion is that every affiliate should be given a chance. If “deleted” from repparttar 151157 system, there should be a very good reason. In some of our research, as we read some of repparttar 151158 terms of service, we were surprised to find some “credible” affiliate programs who were dropping affiliates if they did not earn a certain “minimum” in a given period. In my opinion, that is simply ridiculous. Here is our personal opinion and conclusion regarding this matter:

10 POWERFUL Reasons WHY 'Articles' Remain The Internets #1 Marketing Strategy

Written by Cory Threlfall

Copyright 2005 The IWE, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

We've all heard it... "Content IS King" and for good reason because it IS as far as repparttar Internet is concerned.

And when it comes to web surfers, they come online for two reasons, One is to check there email and reason number Two is to search repparttar 150980 web for "Information".

How do you think repparttar 150981 Internet received repparttar 150982 reputation as repparttar 150983 "Information Super-Highway"?

Because thats what its primary purpose was before they decided to commercialize it to what it is today.

And... what do 'Articles' contain?

The answer is quite simple... "Information".

So, what does this have to do with you?

Be repparttar 150984 one who supplies it.

It's that simple.

Now, for repparttar 150985 rest of this article I'm going to give you 10 POWERFUL reasons WHY you should and/or need to get started using 'Articles' as one of your online marketing strategies so you too can reap repparttar 150986 benefits.

With that said, lets move on to reason #1.

Reason #1. Search Engines LOVE them.

It's no secret that Search Engines LOVE content, so if you supply it on a regular basis your giving them a great reason to stop on by to take a look around.

Once there they'll spider and index your website which is just what you want.

Reason #2. Website and Newsletter owners always need them.

I touched base on this earlier about why web surfers come online.

Website owners need fresh content to keep there visitors and/or subscribers coming back, where as newsletter publishers also need fresh content for their "email" newsletters that they publish and send to their subscriber base.

Remember repparttar 150987 two reasons I discussed earlier about WHY web surfers come online. BINGO!

Reason #3. They generate Life Long residual Traffic.

Articles produce Life Long residual traffic because website owners, newsletter publishers and article directories archive them for there visitors to read and search through.

And since you have a 'Resource Box' located at repparttar 150988 end of every article you produce with your website info and URL you'll receive traffic.

Reason #4. Great way to get One-Way HIGH PR links.

This is probably one of repparttar 150989 best reasons because when you offer your free information with 'Reprint Rights' and repparttar 150990 website owner decides to archive your article within their article directory and their website happens to have a High PR(popularity ranking) ranking, guess what?

You'll be able to 'Piggy Back' off there PR giving your website a PR boost because at repparttar 150991 end of every article you produce your able to leave your 'Resource Box' with all your websites info and most important of all, your URL.

Reason #5. They're VIRAL.

This is yet another great reason to start using articles as one of your online marketing strategies simple because your going to offer 'Reprint Rights' with all repparttar 150992 articles you produce giving Website and Newsletter owners permission to publish them causing a VIRAL explosion and Traffic surge to your website.

Reason #6. You can syndicate them via RSS.

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